Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Humphrey and Nixon have both promised to sell America's crack Phantom bombers to Israel if elected to the White House. The pledge is undoubtedly a good vote-getter, but it is also disastrous foreign policy...
Some playwrights bring their lives into the theater. Others bring only their reading lists. The Man in the Glass Booth proves that Playwright Robert Shaw, the English actor and novelist, has read accounts of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as well as Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Israel and the comments on Hannah Arendt's book. Unfortunately, his play recapitulates the past without transforming it. It raises the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity and the paranoic personality of the archkiller, along with a recital of atrocities. But it offers no fresh illumination...
This soldier would never have questioned the belief that each Israeli should sense strongly and personally the delicate equilibrium that characterizes life in Israel. Yet he also sincerely felt that his mother should not be required to suffer. He preferred that she be ignorant of the dangers her son faced...
...peace ever does come to Israel, the people will have to answer the questions they now ignore. Responses to the demands of kibbutz youth will be harder to find. The government willhave to offer the Israelis more than a tough stance toward the Arabs and a strong army, and some means will have to be found to integrate the North African and East European cultures that exist independently, side by side in the country...
...biggest adjustment, though, will be on the level of the individual. Now when the doctor practices his medicine, he does it for Israel. The bus driver drives his bus and the street vendor sells his oranges, for Israel. Israeli life requires that the first commitment be to the state. Yet one must ask what type of nation Israelis will produce when they begin to act for themselves...